Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I did LC-style problems and had a bar-raiser round followed by two system design rounds.

The system design rounds were each about an hour, with a 30-minute break in between, and the overall structure felt deliberately paced.

The difficulty in the technical parts ranged from medium to hard for the LeetCode-style work, and there was also an easy system design question included in that sequence. I had prepared by working through a large set of NeetCode problems and practicing a lot around the interview format.

Even with that preparation and a coherent structure, I didn’t get an offer. The part that stuck with me was how the system design rounds came with multiple segments and a

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